These being granted, "with patience will I bear that one thing, daily thirsting and calling unto God for reformation of that and others." {33c} But he did not bear that one thing; he would _not_ kneel even after his terms were granted! This is the sum of Knox's "moderation and modesty"! Though he is not averse from talking about himself, Knox, in his "History," spares but three lines to his five years' residence in England (1549-54).

His first charge was Berwick (1549-51), where we have seen he celebrated holy Communion by the Swiss rite, all meekly sitting.

The Second Prayer Book, of 1552, when Knox ministered in Newcastle, bears marks of his hand.

He opposed, as has been said, the rubric bidding the communicants kneel; the attitude savoured of "idolatry." The circumstances in which Knox carried his point on this question are most curious.

Just before October 12, 1552, a foreign Protestant, Johannes Utenhovius, wrote to the Zurich Protestant, Bullinger, to the effect that a certain vir bonus, Scotus natione (a good man and a Scot), a preacher (concionator), of the Duke of Northumberland, had delivered a sermon before the King and Council, "in which he freely inveighed against the Anglican custom of kneeling at the Lord's Supper." Many listeners were greatly moved, and Utenhovius prayed that the sermon might be of blessed effect.